This is what San Franciscans would have seen in the sky early Tuesday if it hadn't been for the cloud cover. In Los Angeles, however, the blood moon, a total lunar eclipse, put on quite a show for night owls.

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What part of 'no' don't you understand? Delbert McCarty tries to coax Howie along so they don't get
too far behind Cindy McCarty, who's walking their other cat, Gateway, on Washington's
Bennington Lake.

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It's Fire Safety Week in India, and there's nothing safer than walking through a wall of
flame. Just make sure you're wearing one of these suits. (Bhubaneswar, India.)

Hindu hot foot: Coinciding with Fire Safety Week is the Hindu ritual of Shiva Gajan at Pratapgarh village
in Agartala, India. Hindu devotees run over smoldering charcoal in the belief that by
enduring the pain, Shiva, the god of destruction, will grant their prayers.

Well, this is going to scar me for life: In front of all the other camels at the Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden, Iris makes sure her 1-week-old baby, Ilias, is presentable for public display.

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The leg bone's connected to the ... Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Director Kirk Johnson and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick look closely at the fossilized right femur of a 65-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex in Washington, D.C. Formerly known as the Wankel T. rex, the nearly complete dinosaur fossil was discovered in 1988 in eastern Montana and will be the centerpiece of the museum's new fossil hall.

You guys look so ridiculous, we have to take your picture: Models snap photos of their colleagues (not shown) during the K-Beauty World Fashion Festival in Gwacheon, South Korea. About 15,000 makeup artists, hairdressers and fashion designers from 56 countries participated in the annual event to promote Korean culture.

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You guys look so ridiculous, we have to take your picture: Models...

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Protein shakes make a thoughtful wedding gift: A model wears a Vera Wang gown during the Spring 2015 Bridal Collection in New York City.

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Consider yourself warned! A canine protester's disturbing poster stops a passer-by in her tracks during a demonstration in Athens against visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Greece returned to international bond markets last week amid "renewed confidence" in the financially strapped nation.

Shaken and stirred: A boy watches TV in the street in Managua because he's too afraid to go inside his house.
Since a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Nicaragua's Pacific region April 10, the area
has been constantly rocked by aftershocks. The rash of quakes killed one person, injured
40 and damaged 2,000 homes.

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We redheads have to stick together: Tamara Murawski nuzzles an orange boy at the Animal Welfare Society in Madison Heights, Mich. Some of the 143 cats up for adoption at the shelter came from the home of an overwhelmed cat hoarder.